Patents by Inventor Brian D. Arffa

Brian D. Arffa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Revealing new errors in edited code
    Patent number: 9342434
    Abstract: Under the present invention, a first (e.g., unedited) set of code will be compiled and analyzed to produce a first set of results that includes a set of errors. A second set of code, which represent an edited version of the first set of code will be compiled and analyzed to produce a set of results that includes another set of errors. Thereafter, the second set of errors will be filters so that errors appearing from the compilation and analysis of the first set of code are excluded. This filtered set of errors can than be presented to the user. The present invention will leverage, among other things, a static code analyzer and a filtering tool to achieve these results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nancy E. Kho, Brian D. Arffa, David J. Miller
  • REVEALING NEW ERRORS IN EDITED CODE
    Publication number: 20090113393
    Abstract: Under the present invention, a first (e.g., unedited) set of code will be compiled and analyzed to produce a first set of results that includes a set of errors. A second set of code, which represent an edited version of the first set of code will be compiled and analyzed to produce a set of results that includes another set of errors. Thereafter, the second set of errors will be filters so that errors appearing from the compilation and analysis of the first set of code are excluded. This filtered set of errors can than be presented to the user. The present invention will leverage, among other things, a static code analyzer and a filtering tool to achieve these results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Nancy E. Kho, Brian D. Arffa, David J. Miller